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OVCC: the Ohio Valley Coffee Cartel by Abe Mwaura Face Can Be Alleviated Winds of Change the newsletter of the July 2003 Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition E Huntington, WV www.ohvec.org Judy Bonds (center) with the other winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize - one from each inhabited continent. The winner from South America could not be there because she was unable to get a visa to get in the U.S. - she'd been arrested in the course of her activism. WV Activist Wins Global Environmental Award by Peter Slavin CEO a dressing-down. Facing Massey Energy Co. chief Special to The Washington Post, June 9, 2003 Don Blankenship at the nearby podium, she accused At a May stockholders’ meeting of one of the Massey’s mining operations of trampling on the people and nation’s largest coal companies, one-time convenience store environment of southern West Virginia. clerk and Pizza Hut waitress Julia Bonds rose and gave its “When it rains, Appalachian children go to bed fully clothed,” she said, as Blankenship stood motionless and Inside expressionless. “They lie sleepless and traumatized, ready "Fair Trade" Coffee Cartel ....................page 2 to evacuate their homes in case of flooding from your strip Chauncey Gets Dumped On ....................page 7 mines.” OVEC Activists Lobby in DC ....................page 13 As her 12-year-old grandson lies in bed, she went Christmas in July - Really! ....................page 16 on, he “plans escape routes in case one of your many toxic waste dams fails.” continued on page 5 1 OVCC: The Ohio Valley Coffee Cartel by Abe Mwaura face can be alleviated. Next to the rice cakes and Maryanne’s These problems include hummus, there is now a new addition to the Ohio Valley job loss and desperation as Coffee Cartel (OVCC) Whirlpool fridge. A shipment farmers have been forced of coffee – fair trade coffee. from their jobs. The In another grand attempt to take on more tasks economic instability than they can possibly handle, the OVCC staff has now caused by the lack of fair taken up trading in the dark elixir of hyperawakedness. prices for coffee has You too can satisfy your painful addiction for this nectar, driven many of these and now you can do it with fair trade coffee from farmers to starvation. OVCC. Sometime they abandon As the coffee (and tea) market in the US their children, community continues to grow, the farmers are being exploited even and property in search of jobs. more: by their own governments, by big corporations, Sometimes farmers inadvertently increase environmental and bluntly put, by you. problems by cutting down trees, hoping this will make This means that while you pay almost $3 for a their coffee farms more economically viable. cup of Starbucks, the farmers are getting mere pennies Fair trade brings hope and justice to the farmers on the pound, generally not enough to sustain themselves who are lifted out of poverty by being paid legitimate and their families. The system is set up such that most prices for their crop and their hard work. people in these countries cannot even afford their own OVCC is selling fair trade coffee from the coffee once it hits their local markets. Arizona-based Tonatierra project, No Justice, No OVCC (and even Starbucks) has realized this Java, at $10 per 16 oz. bag. Call us at (304) 522- and taken up a very simple system (yes it’s legal – 0246 and we will make sure you get your coffee. although it’s akin to stealing from the rich and giving to Even when you do get the urge to go to a the poor) which has been around for a while but is still Starbucks Café, or any other café for that matter, ask not entirely popular. for fair trade coffee. Fair Trade Coffee Another thing to do would be to spread the Fair trade coffee guarantees the small family word as widely as possible. Tell your friends or, if you farmers a fair price for their coffee, and through this think you can’t get the details right, give them this article. simple economic model several problems these farmers Have a “fair to the last drop” day! Who is Abe Mwaura, and Why is He Helping OVEC Push Fair Trade Coffee? Abe was born in Kansas, has lived in Kenya minded. and West Virginia, and now lives in the clouds. He is an Most recently avid traveler, and thinks it’s a good way to meet women. he was an An unrepentant idealist, he has blindly become a lover officer in the of human beings and he likes chocolate. Marshall Many say he will die young, so he has attempted Chapter of a variety of dangerous things, just to prove them wrong. Habitat for He has never received a speeding ticket, although it Humanity and would be well deserved, but he still has a few weeks Marshall left in the country to change that trend. Action for His activism began in the church and community Peaceful OVEC intern Abe Mwaura. service, and he has always been politically- and socially- Solutions where, he got to know Dave Cooper and continued on page 3 2 Going (Slowly) Down the Road to Clean Elections by Janet Fout Some may argue that in these times of budgetary The road to clean elections is by no means a high- shortfalls, the state can’t afford to finance political speed freeway, but little by little, this campaign finance reform campaigns. But let’s face it. As taxpayers, we are already legislation is gaining the respect and scrutiny of the West paying, and paying, and paying. Virginia legislature. Unfortunately, few regular folks are benefiting from And why shouldn’t it? Elected officials currently the policies that are being enacted. Instead, our tax dollars have to spend a huge portion of their time raising campaign are subsidizing those same special interests that finance contributions. campaigns (in 2000, less than ½ of 1 percent of all West This voluntary option will not only free them up to Virginians contributed to legislative races). spend more time talking to their constituents about important For example, the Department of Transportation issues, but also can help restore integrity to the political concluded it would take at minimum $2.8 billion over the process. continued on page 4 Note to the Homeland Security Folks: Environmentalists Are Not Terrorists by Kathryn A. Stone spirits. What an opportunity to quiet To the Charleston Gazette Editor: these nuisances by calling them I read with dismay the article by Ken Ward Jr. in terrorists! Assail their patriotism the Gazette quoting Lt. Col. Herb Lattimore on the subject and make them pariahs! of potential terrorist groups in our state. Most environmental Although I would agree that racial hate groups and activists whom I know (and I This is your Earth without environmental terrorists. certain religious groups, because of past activities, should count myself as one), are be in his lexicon of those to watch, lumping environmental passionately concerned about the health and well-being of activists in this group makes me very suspicious and angers all citizens who are at the mercy of wanton industrial pollution me. and destruction being visited upon our planet (these are the Lt. Col. Lattimore and Bill Raney seem to be kindred “real” terrorists!). Clean air, clean water and clean soil are birth rights that everyone should OVEC Board of Directors & Staff want to protect. To classify this as Board Members terrorism is a consummate distortion LaShonda Bare, Co-Chair John Taylor, Co-Chair of truth. Gregg and Melissa Anthony Jeff Bosley This is your Earth with Thank God for these Greg Carroll David Duke environmental terrorists. “terrorists,” without whom Eric Fout Winnie Fox Any questions? cancer and respiratory Larry Gibson Regina Hendrix Rebecca Hoff Tom Jones ailments, to name a few, would be rampant. Dan Kash Thomas Kincaid Mwaura Autobiography Beady Phillips Sharon Roon Elinore Taylor continued from page 2 Full- and Part-Time Staff Janet Fout of OVEC. Dianne Bady Janet Fout Vivian Stockman OVEC is now seriously reconsidering taking on this Maryanne Graham OVEC Webmaster Don Alexander wild child, because they are worried about their clean-cut Winds of Change Editor Dianne Bady image. HA! He’s perfect. He is also very pompous and is Winds of Change Spam Can Collector Monty Fowler always right, and has one of those personalities that deceives you into thinking he knows more than he really does. Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition He now intends to move to El Salvador at the end P.O. Box 6753, Huntington, WV 25773 phone: (304) 522-0246 fax: (304) 525-6984 of the summer to work with the gang communities in the e-mail: [email protected] web page: www.ohvec.org prisons, and help empower local communities in the rural areas. 3 Clean Elections continued from page 2 out of 47 legislators who favored an increase in coal truck next decade to repair the damage to roads and bridges limits received a total of $100,243 from coal, while 24 of caused by overweight coal trucks running illegally (a fraction the 48 who opposed the limits received a total of $14,695. of that amount could fund legislative races!). In 2002 the While some might argue that they wouldn’t want People’s Election Reform Coalition, which tracks special their tax dollars supporting campaigns of politicians with interest contributions to legislators, found that the during the whom they don’t agree, as a taxpayer, I’m tired of paying special session on overweight coal trucks this summer, 39 for mess after mess heaped on the state by a coal industry Sub-Committee Members to Call About Clean Elections that has the idea it’s somehow above the law.
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